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Title: Eclipse: Step by Step by Joe Pluta ISBN: 1-58347-044-1 Publisher: MC Press, LLC Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A complete tutorial for any experience level
Comment: I have always been a command line and vi kind of guy and usually eschew IDEs. All of the buzz surrounding Eclipse has caused me to investigate it further. What I learned is that Eclipse is a very powerful, extensible IDE that can be quite daunting to set up and master. Joe's book provides a great guide, suitable for anyone from a rank beginner to someone like myself, with over twenty five years of programming experience. It is not a book on Java programming, which makes sense since Eclipse is capable of more than being a Java IDE. Instead, consider it a user manual for a programming tool.
I have read the other reviewers' comments and have seen some that were rather unkind and caustic, most citing what they deem to gratuitous screen shots. Okay, I found some content too simplistic for my needs. But I wouldn't presume to condemn the book because of this. This guide has been crafted to be of value to people in any level of sophistication -- kind of like the manuals that come with any electronic equipment. Everything is there, from "hooking it up" to learning more advanced features.
Thus, I would suggest that you treat it as a user guide... skim the material with which you already have familiarity (since you may still pick up some nuggets) and scan the material that is new to you.
In short, I think this is a well written, well edited book that deserves to be on the bookshelf of anyone wanting to learn how to use the Eclipse IDE. The cost of the book will be easily recovered just with the time it will save you getting up to speed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Read
Comment: Joe Pluta;
I finished your book, Eclipse step by step in about 3 days, I wanted to let you know that your book is the only one of four I ordered that actually works the way it should.
Joe, it is obvious to me that you took the time make sure the examples you included in the book actually worked, and when they did not work exactly like the book, because I am at a different version, it was presented in a way that the answer was intuitive.
I wish you could have written the other three books, or at least edited them.
Keep up the good work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Eclipse: step-by-step!
Comment: When I started to learn my first computer language, I was provided with a tome of technical documentation, where all the operators were listed in the alphabetic order with all the intricacies of their working explained. I wouldn't probably be as much lost if I were brought on another planet -- there I would at least know where is the left and where the right. Then some kind soul lent me a book written in more human style, so I could begin to orient myself along the four sides of the world...
I wish my early days I had a book like this! If you are confident in your learning abilities, and prefer to find your own path, there are books about Eclipse that you will enjoy more. But if you feel lost and looking for help, you will find it in this book. You will get your personal guide, who will never let you get lost, but will walk you through the foreign planet explaining what is this or that thing you are passing.
The book covers all the basic tasks: starting a project, editing/importing programs, compiling, debugging and troubleshooting. Each example is provided with a program on CD, so you do not have to type your own if you do not want to, and you can learn how to use Eclipse even if you know no Java at all. Each step you need to make is listed, explained, and for each step there are screenshots that illustrate what your screen should look like. If you installed Eclipse from CD, you will never have to wonder why your screen doesn't look like it is supposed to.
In "Agile Software Development" Alistair Cockburn defines three stages of learning. In the *following* stage learners need one procedure that work, "they copy it, they learn it", and they need a very detailed description of this procedure. In the next, *detaching* stage, people learn several ways to do the job along with advantages and shortcomings of each. In the third, *fluent* stage, they forget about procedures, as they do not need them.
This book is determinately and rigorously written for the first group of learners, and it should be appreciated as such.
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Title: The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse by Sherry Shavor, Jim D'Anjou, Scott Fairbrother, Dan Kehn, John Kellerman, Pat McCarthy ISBN: 0321159640 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 19 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developer by David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, Robert McGovern ISBN: 1930110960 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Eclipse Modeling Framework by Frank Budinsky, David Steinberg, Ed Merks, Raymond Ellersick, Timothy J. Grose ISBN: 0131425420 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 13 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins by Erich Gamma, Kent Beck ISBN: 0321205758 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 31 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Eclipse 2 for Java Developers by Berthold Daum ISBN: 0470869054 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 12 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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